510. How The Iran War Is Spiralling Into a Global Crisis

The Rest Is Politics

Monday, 9 March 2026 - 1 hour 6 minutes

Has Trump unleashed a sequence of events nobody in the world can control? How serious are the global consequences? Is this war even more dangerous than the Iraq war?

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